Sunny South Guards

Military Flag Presentation Ceremony

ROLL OF HONOR
 

The following Florida Veteran is being honored in this project:



PRIVATE JOSEPH F. PHILIPS

 

Age at enlistment: 18

Born: 1843 in Florida

An 1850 census shows him living with his parents, G.W. Philips and Martha Philips in Key West, Florida.  

Enlisted 7/10/61 at Tampa.  Employed as a nurse at Wayside Hospital, Meridian, Mississippi in August 1863.He was transferred to the Confederate Navy 4/10/64.

 

No further information about Pvt. Philips is known.

No Confederate Veteran pension recorded.

 

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Special Thanks to Aimee Gilmore for the research for this Roll of Honor